Caught on tape: UN gangsters chat about drugs, guns, money and the mob

Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun05.09.2011

United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche being taken into custody in Texas on May 17, 2008. Roueche was turned away from Mexico and forced to land in the United States where he was arrested on drug charges...
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Police said UN gang founder Clay Roueche, shown here, was also involved in the conspiracy to murder the brothers, but has not yet been indicted.Jenelle Schneider
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Police evidence photos of an illegal Glock found in the Coquilam, B.C. condo of Clay Roueche, leader of UN Gang, after his May 17, 2008 arrest, Thursday, December, 10, 2009. The photos were filed in US District Court in Seattle, WA where Roueche will be sentence Dec. 16, 2009.Evidence
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Clayton Roueche and his associates travelled to Montreal in April 2008 to watch an Ultimate Fighting Championship event. He held court in room 407 of the W-Hotel with organized crime contacts stopping by. One of those was a Mafia leader, according to documents filed in the U.S. court.

Spending lots of time with Roueche, according to court documents, was Johnny (K-9) Croitoru, the professional wrestler now charged in B.C. with plotting to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates.

“There is one big crazy guy out here who f---ing thinks the Mexicans and the UN are f---ing up the market,” Roueche told the person identified in court documents as Croitoru. “They are just having meetings because the Mexicans before I was involved were just straight flooding the city.”

Roueche bragged to Croitoru that there were two Montreal “crews” that wanted to work with the UN.

“And they got 70 guys out here. But they sort of stay neutral. They like to be quiet and make money,” Roueche said.

Croitoru told Roueche that he had his own contact who wanted to work with them.

“He makes 25 keys a month of this crystal meth,” Croitoru said. “We could get rich with this.”

Croitoru explained that his meth man had a beef with someone and needed protection.

“I’ll get the f---ing money for protection and we’ll get good prices for the s---,” Croitoru said.

Roueche agreed, “We can make tons.”

Croitoru suddenly realized that a visitor to room 407 has forgotten his man purse.

“Hey dawgie, give him his pouch,” he said to Roueche, as the UN boss opened the door and yelled down the hallway. The pouch owner didn’t return.

“There are guns in the pouch,” Croitoru said. “He’s got a nice little f---ing 15 with a clip in it.”

“Nice,” Roueche said, adding that he would keep it.

Roueche said that he has been working with South American drug cartels.

“I got given a big responsibility by the guys way down south, I am just hoping that it works out.”

Croitoru asked for a piece of the action. “Dawgie, when are you going to let me in to make big, big money?

“You’ve got connections buddy. Let’s make it happen,” Croitoru said.

Roueche complained that other traffickers had not been giving him a cut.

“I have to make my own moves and s---, which I’ve been doing. I think that one collection I got is good, right,” Roueche said.

And he said he has another collection in the works linked to “bikers’ buddies.”

“In the long run we’ll make money. This guy has got the No. 1 flower line in L.A. CODs everything. He buys E,” Roueche said. “We can get some cheap labour and everything from him. And because the other guy who owns him owes us money, we can just take it over.”

Roueche worried the mobster would be nervous if Croitoru remained in the room.

“I don’t want to sketch this guy out,” Roueche said. “He doesn’t want to see nobody. He is like an oldtimer.”

Croitoru offered to act as Roueche’s bodyguard and stand outside in the hallway.

“This guy controls all the import and exports, the transportation in Eastern Canada,” Roueche said. “He gets product on an airplane in Venezuela.”

Roueche said he got some chromium, a chemical that can be used to produce illegal pharmaceuticals.

“I got some s--- I want to f--- with,” Roueche said.

Roueche laughed when he told Croitoru that his associates were down in the hotel bar.

“All our guys are sitting with the mob and bikers. They are sharing a table,” Roueche said. “Hopefully it works out right.”

He triumphantly declared to Croitoru that he had “f---ing keys all over the city right now.”

Roueche also said that he had been in the drug trade since he was 19, but blew most of his money in the early years.

“I don’t know what the f--- I did with all my money back then. I just spent it like a f---ing idiot. I don’t know what the hell I had to show for it,” Roueche said. “You would just go out with 30 guys and catch the bill and you would be broke.”

On an earlier recording, Roueche also reminisced about the good old days and how his associates were buying “1,000 pounds a week” of pot from him.

“They had three f---ing rental houses and we would come in with garbage bags full of this s--- and they would be counting and weighing and bagging and tagging and looking and giving prices and I had all my weed guys because they were all from the valley. I knew every grower in the country.”

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